Etymograph

English

kaymakam

Kaymakam comes from Ottoman Turkish قایمقام ‘a rank of field officer: lieutenant colonel or…’, from Arabic مَقَام ‘verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma) (form I)’, and ultimately from قَامَ ‘to get up’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentقَامَqāma‘to get up’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمَقَام-‘verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma) (form I)’
  3. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قایمقامkaymakam‘a rank of field officer: lieutenant colonel or a junior captain’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1645kaymakam

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentقَامَqāma‘to get up’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمَقَام-‘verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma) (form I)’
  3. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قایمقامkaymakam‘a rank of field officer: lieutenant colonel or a junior captain’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1645kaymakam

Earliest quotation: 1645, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-elianae...: “He desird him to leave a charge with the…”

Every English word from Arabic قَامَ

Today it means

noun An Ottoman official who acted as grand vizier and governor of Constantinople during any absence or illness of the incumbent.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic قَامَ / kaymakam

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